Cyberpunk: 2075.

Chapter 147 6. Dakota Smith

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"Hello, is this Ms. Dakota Smith?"

"Where did you get my phone number? Forget it, kid. You don't need to address me as Ms. Just call me Dakota. Tell me about your background."

Dakota Smith answered the call, feeling a little surprised. Normally, as a middleman, she would ask her hackers to help open the boxes when she wanted to find mercenaries. But this was the first time that it was her turn to have the box opened.

"My mercenary name is KK. I wonder if you have heard of this name."

"You are a mercenary who has gained fame recently in KK City. I have heard of your name."

Karl's reputation in the middleman business is quite famous. Basically, all the middlemen in charge of a region know him to some extent. However, generally speaking, even the middlemen who can control a region will not take the initiative to find Karl before he comes to this area.

This involves the implicit territorial regulations among the middlemen in each region. Only middlemen who do not follow the rules will run around in various regions. Under normal circumstances, the mercenaries will be responsible for the liaison tasks of the middlemen in the region they go to.

If KK had come to the Bad Land, then Dakota Smith would naturally want to contact this famous person, but her intelligence did not say that KK had come to the Bad Land.

Could it be that my intelligence network failed to collect any information about KK's whereabouts?

Thinking of this, Dakota Smith asked, "So, what's up KK? Are you coming to the Bad Land to help me solve some problems? I'd welcome you."

Who wouldn't like a mercenary with a 100% mission completion rate and a 100% praise rate? There are so many troublesome tasks on hand, and we need as many capable people as possible.

"If there's a small job that can be done on the side, I don't mind taking it. I'm still in the city, but I'm going to the Badlands soon. I thought I'd come to you, the most famous middleman in the Badlands, to get to know you first, and arrange a commission."

Arrange the commission.

This sentence is very interesting.

Dakota Smith habitually took a sip of pure oxygen from the oxygen tank hanging on his waist. After calming his mind with this habit that he had maintained for decades, he spoke:
"You mean, you have a commission for me?"

"Almost. I want you to help me find a gang. Recently, a group of night wanderers robbed the company's goods. We want to find their whereabouts."

"You took the job from the company, right?"

Dakota Smith's words did not get a response from Carl, but she knew that this was Carl's tacit consent.

The legendary mercenary Morgan Blackhand wrote a book called "The Executioner's Manual", which basically tells what a mercenary should pay attention to and what he should not do when doing a mission. Basically all famous mercenaries have read that book more or less, and most of the clauses in it have become recognized codes in the industry, and there is one of these rules.

When mercenaries are carrying out missions, they are not allowed to reveal mission details to irrelevant personnel.

You can brag as much as you want after completing the mission. When you are drunk, you can even tell clearly how many leg hairs the enemy has in the scope when you are shooting. But during the mission, a qualified mercenary should not do this.

Carl, who cares a lot about his reputation as a mercenary, won't say it, but smart people can understand.

Not caring about such things, Dakota Smith avoided the topic and only asked a key question.

"How much are you willing to pay?" Price is the standard for the quality of mercenaries. Every middleman knows clearly what kind of mercenaries can be hired with what kind of money. Every middleman has dreamed of having top mercenaries do work for just a few thousand euros, but it is a delusion and is unlikely to come true after all.

Carl is an insider in the industry and he knows the rules, so he reported a suitable number right away.

"30,000 euros, you can give me a deposit of 10,000 euros first."

Before discussing compensation with Dakota Smith, Carl had discussed it with several other people in the team communication.

As the team leader, he has to pay for the money, and then deduct it from the total remuneration. Anyway, the client pays him the money, so there is no need to change hands.

"Thirty thousand euros?"

Dakota Smith listened to the money and her voice became noticeably softer, as if she was a little happy: "This is not a small amount in the Bad Land."

What level of mercenary can I afford with 30,000 Euros?

For 60,000 euros, the priest can ask Carl and others to do a job.

With 30,000 euros, Wakako, who is collaborating with Karl for the first time, can ask him to do a job for her.

If you convert it a little bit, it means you can ask people of the level of Carl's team in the Bad Land to help you do a job.

Of course, it cannot be converted in this way in essence. Working for the priest and Wakako, they both said that this was a small job for Carl's team, and 30,000 euros and 60,000 euros were actually not worthy of each other. It was only because of some reasons that they could hire Carl and his team to work at this price.

For example, returning a favor, or having a hacker help with this job.

With only 30,000 Euros, you can forget about hiring a Badlands Carl team, but considering that people in the Badlands are not wealthy, you can probably afford a team of the level of Badlands Mann or Badlands Brown.

That is to say, he has some street fame, to the extent that people can come in and have a drink.

"Most of the mercenaries in the Badlands will fight over your commission, but I have to think carefully about who to send."

Dakota Smith responded to Carl while thinking, the Badlands is not a good place to live. Most of the mercenaries in such places actually live closer to Saint Domingo. Those people are okay to work on the margins, but forget about tracking night ghosts. If you want to find someone, you have to find someone who is experienced.

Seniority words.
Dakota Smith suddenly thought of a force.

To find a night-wandering ghost, perhaps you don't necessarily have to entrust a mercenary. Aren't the wanderer families in the bad land also good candidates?

Dakota Smith was very familiar with the affairs of the various families in the Bad Land. From what she knew, there was a wanderer family called Buckle that was splitting up because after the death of the old leader, none of their new leaders could serve for more than two years, so the entire family was in chaos and had no direction.

I heard that recently some members of the Buckle family wanted to cooperate with the notorious Snake State. Many young members were very dissatisfied with this and began to actively contact the outside world, thinking about whether they could do something. And it happened that a group of people from the Buckle family had been active near Night City in the past few months.

That group of people are running around for money.
They may be interested in this commission.

(End of this chapter)